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Mine had a lever also. Can't remember when it changed to no lever but it was around your year model. If you look at the front of that box, there is a big rubber "grommet" where the parking brake handle goes through. If you had a handle, then there will be another slit in that grommet (to the right of the parking brake) where it would have came though. (of course, someone could have changed that also.)